Bouncing Back

Biggertigger is a place where serving prisoners and ex-offenders can exhibit their work and where people can come to see it.

Biggertigger tries to show how some serving prisoners are truly BOUNCING back and are positively motivated to become men and women who can change and can bring-out the 'good' and 'thoughtful' parts of their personalities. We're ALL capable of 'good' and 'bad' behaviours....but some people have never really had a chance to engage with their positive potential. Many have spent their entire lives within 'the system'....from kids' homes to Young Offenders' Institutions to Jail.

Most people think that our prisons are full of really violent psychopaths...and indeed..there are a few violent people in there, but the majority of people in jail are much the same as you...and CERTAINLY like me. . i was myself a prisoner ( in 2012)...and it's directly due to the way that i found Art could help me to express the way i felt at that time, that i wanted to bring art created by prisoners into the public domain with Biggertigger.

I don't want to try to diminish the harms done by prisoners...not at all..all of them have broken the law severely enough as to have given a judge no option but to send them to jail....but i want to try to help people to see how if we are able to express ourselves creatively...we can learn a lot about ourselves...and about each other. Creativity is a fabulously useful, but under-used, tool and its a scandal that funding for it is being pulled all over the place including in prisons...the very places where it COULD do SO much good....Our politicians and law-creators are short-sighted and just WRONG in their thinking....their ignorance makes me FURIOUS!! But what can we do?

Well.... i'm trying to do my part to show the world what our offenders are capable of, and what they can do that's positive and hopefully i'm doing a tiny bit to change perceptions and to WAKE UP the policy-makers. But i'm not holding my breathe...especially now that the Tories have won the General Election with a majority!!...And the MOST ironic move they have made is to place Mr. Gove as Justice Sec ffs!!!! Words fail me.!!!

Know any Villainous Artists?

If you or someone you know is a prisoner or an ex-offender, and you have some Artwork you might want to exhibit, please don't hesitate to email me at nigienige@hotmail.co.uk...and i will make sure your work features on this site.